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Astra Taylor (born September 30, 1979) is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. She is a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation for her work on challenging predatory practices around debt.
Sep 24, 2023 · Astra Taylor’s Age of Insecurity. The activist and writer sees capitalism as an insecurity-producing machine. By Molly Fischer. September 24, 2023. Photograph by Heather Sten / Guardian / eyevine...
Sep 7, 2023 · Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer and organizer who explores how rising inequality, declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism originate from a social order built on insecurity. She talks about her unschooling upbringing, her response to 9/11, and her involvement in the Occupy Movement.
Astra Taylor is a writer, documentarian, and organizer. Her films include Zizek!, a feature documentary about the world’s most outrageous philosopher, and Examined Life, a series of excursions with contemporary thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Peter Singer and others.
Jan 16, 2019 · Documentary interviews Astra Taylor about her upcoming film What is Democracy?, a cinematic essay that asks that simple, yet profoundly complex, question. The film is essential viewing at this time because it both allows and forces us to grapple with the blindingly complex conundrums of governance.
Oct 20, 2023 · In this urgent cultural diagnosis, author and activist Astra Taylor exposes how seemingly disparate crises—rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the...
Angela Davis in conversation with Astra Taylor: Their Democracy And Ours. Building on the insights of Astra Taylor’s award-winning film, “What is Democracy?”, renowned activist and...
